A magnitude 8.8 earthquake struck off Russia’s Kamchatka Peninsula in July 2025, making it the strongest global quake since Japan’s 2011 Tohoku disaster and among the most powerful ever recorded. The ...

A major earthquake in Japan's southwest killed at least 13 people and left several injured or missing after a shopping center ...

Economist Paul Sheard such a hike is needed to fight inflation reflecting higher import prices amid the yen’s weakness.

In 1923, an earthquake in the Tokyo region killed more than 100,000 people. Another quake that caused severe devastation was ...

Rescuers are searching for survivors at the site of a collapsed shopping centre and a factory. The quake, with a magnitude of ...

Authorities said there were no reports of damage to major public facilities or infrastructure including three nearby nuclear power plants.

The Bank of Japan needs to raise its policy interest rate from the current 1.0 pct to 1.5 pct to fight inflation reflecting higher import prices amid the yen's weakness, economist Paul Sheard has said ...

After the shaking from the Great East Japan Earthquake stopped, Kazuhiko Haryu and other members of a local volunteer fire corps were moving along the coast, calling on residents to evacuate.

Japanese oyster farmer Shigeatsu Hatakeyama restored his bay by planting trees. Healthy forests upstream provided essential ...

The Australian TV star is said to be leaving his morning show slot after 20 years, following a headline-grabbing podcast interview with a far-right British extremist.

TOKYO — A powerful earthquake struck off the northern coast of Japan during rush hour on Thursday morning, but the country’s meteorological agency said there was no danger of a tsunami and no serious ...